{"id":7579,"date":"2022-03-08T17:23:36","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T22:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bloom-law.com\/?p=7579"},"modified":"2022-03-08T17:23:36","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T22:23:36","slug":"bloom-oliver-and-pearson-deliver-huge-win-for-client-against-city-of-brookhaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloom-law.com\/bloom-oliver-and-pearson-deliver-huge-win-for-client-against-city-of-brookhaven\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloom, Oliver, and Pearson deliver huge win for client against City of Brookhaven"},"content":{"rendered":"
On Monday, a DeKalb County jury ordered the city, its mayor and city manager to pay roughly $6 million in damages to a real estate developer and two homeowners for purposefully stalling a townhome development project.<\/p>\n
The jury found the city intentionally derailed the 226-unit project along Buford Highway because the developer, Atlanta-based\u00a0The Ardent Companies<\/em>, wouldn\u2019t participate in what they called a pay-to-play kickback.<\/p>\n
Simon Bloom, Ardent\u2019s attorney, argued the city officials abused their positions of power and ignored multiple conflicts of interest.<\/p>\n
\u201c(Cities) always want a concession… that\u2019s normal and part of the everyday process,\u201d he told the AJC. \u201cIf that\u2019s all we had here, there would be no case. But once they started to compete with us for the six houses at the top of the road (and ) when they wanted $3 million for the road, that was simply too far.\u201d<\/p>\n